Description

This reference design showcases an interface implementation for connecting multiple high voltage bipolar input, 8-channel, mux-input SAR ADCs (6) with the Sitara Arm processors for expanding the number of input channels using Programmable Real-time Unit (PRU-ICSS). ADCs are configured for simultaneous sampling of the same channels across all ADCs. The design highlights the capability of PRU-ICSS to handle 1536ksps (each sample = 16 bits) data rate by sampling 640 samples per line cycle. For 50Hz cycle, this corresponds to 32ksps per channel across 6 ADCs simultaneously (640 samples/cycle*50Hz*6 ADCs*8 Ch = 1536ksps). Also, the second PRU is used to post process the data to achieve coherent sampling.